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With respect to sex : Negotiating hijra identity in South India

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Publication details: New Delhi Yoda Press 2005Description: 310p xiISBN:
  • 9780226707549
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.300000 RED
Contents:
Contents: The ethnographic setting; Hijras, individuality, and izzat; Cartographies of sex/gender; Sacred legitimization, corporeal practice : Hindu iconography and hijra renunciation; "We are all Musalmans now" : religious practice, positionality, and hijra/Muslim identification; (Per)formative selves : the production of gender; "Our people" : kinship, marriage, and the family; Shifting contexts, fluid identities; Crossing "lines" of subjectivity : transnational movements and gay identifications; Conclusion.
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Contents:
The ethnographic setting;
Hijras, individuality, and izzat;
Cartographies of sex/gender;
Sacred legitimization, corporeal practice : Hindu iconography and hijra renunciation;
"We are all Musalmans now" : religious practice, positionality, and hijra/Muslim identification;
(Per)formative selves : the production of gender;
"Our people" : kinship, marriage, and the family;
Shifting contexts, fluid identities;
Crossing "lines" of subjectivity : transnational movements and gay identifications;
Conclusion.